On Publishing and Reviews by CAReditorsteve: Blog Quotes and Notes

1. On Publishing and Reviews by CAReditorsteve: Blog Quotes and Notes Editor (in-chief) Contemporary Accounting Research Director CA-Queen’s Centre for Governance Professor of Business PricewaterhouseCoopers/Tom O’Neill Faculty Fellow in Accounting Steven E. Salterio Ph.D. FCA #1 MBA outside USA Business Week 2008 2006 2004 #2 in 2010 and 2002

2. Queen’s U is where????? Kingston, ON

3. An eclectic career – only in Canada, eh? Auditing Theory Based ACM Negotiation Questionnaires JAR2001, AJPT 2005, CAR 2007 Auditor Experiments AOS1996, AOS1997, AOS2010, AOS2010, BRIA2011 Corporate Governance Board and Audit Comm. Archival CAR2001 Audit Committee members Experiment AJPT 2002 Earnings Quality/Internal Control Archival CAR2011 Auditing Field Studies - Positivistic CAR 1995, CAR1997 Accounting Consultations BSC Mgmt. Acctg. Experiments TAR2001, AOS2002, TAR 2004 Auditing Field Studies – Interpetivistic AOS2008 (ACM neg.), AOS2009 (FT100 MBA list audit)

4. Disclaimer The views expressed in this presentation are my own and do not represent official positions of Contemporary Accounting Research. Official positions of Contemporary Accounting Research are arrived at only the results of a double blind review process and expert Editor handling of manuscripts.

5. AAA President Rayburn 2005-06 We need to encourage new ideas and innovative research. The best way to do that is to publish some of it. . . . . We must also increase both the number and diversity of articles we publish, as well as publishing more highly innovative research. . . . . Our top tier journals as a group project too narrow a view of the breadth and diversity of (what should count as) accounting research Quotes from Presidential Speech AEN Fall 2005

6. AAA President Haka 2008-09 Accounting faculty down by 19% Other business school faculty up by 20% PhD production 140-150 a year Retirements in US 400-500 a year (although GRSWWII has delayed this somewhat) The Accounting Academy at a Tipping Point: Renewal or Decline? If we can all work together we can reverse the documented decline in the accounting academy . . . Quotes from Presidential Speech AEN Fall 2008

7. Need to link 2005 to 2009 Research lack of diversity in our major journals NOT drawing enough on the breathe and rigour of social sciences as a whole to study accounting Tipping point: Renew or decline Large scale economics based research has a limited audience of potential doctoral students. No wonder so many financial economics based graduates never publish but concentrate on teaching.

8. What’s the commonality? Could it be that the perceived narrowness of our disciplines (especially in NA) could be reducing the chances of our replicating ourselves and going the way of the . . . . . .

9. Indeed, have we BOXed ourselves in???? What is the BOX?

10. Is it Paradigm? Is it Topic? What is the BOX? • Finance/Economics • Psychology • Cognitive/jdm • Social/group • Sociology • Mainstream • Critical • History • Traditional • Genealogy • Financial • Managerial • Audit • Tax • Information systems • Modeling • Markets based • Archival • Case study/observation/field study • Experiment • Survey • Text study Is it Method?

11. Archival Field Experiment Experiment Experimental methods Economic sociology Behavioral Economics

12. Archival Analytical model Archival Experiential Behavioral Finance Behavioral Finance Behavioral Finance

13. IS and Analysts - Field Archival Analytical model and AIS Mgmt. Acctg. Field Study Archival: Valuation and markets Audit experiment

14. Table of Contents • Introduction – Observations about the Review Process • The review process • Acceptance rate stories • Review contents  • Negative outcomes - two types • Conclusion and the “Golden Review”

15. Read my blog for more thoughts as the adventure unfolds http://careditorsteve.wordpress.com Thank you